Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"?

Vivek Jishtu writes "Tech Crunch predicts that the AllPeers Firefox extension will massively increase the attractiveness of that already popular browser, drawing more millions away from embattled Internet Explorer. AllPeers is a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser. Initially, interaction with those buddies will be limited to discovering and sharing files."

Re:Quantumware

[underpar]

In the future, AllPeers will also have folders to allow public sharing (probably with restrictions to control copyright violations). I also assume they will build chat and VOIP functionality into the application as well.

You deride the power of the probable assumption?

But it's still in the box

[murderlegendre]

Since the AllPeers applet is still in the box, it's impossible to say whether or not it's a killer app. Since we cannot directly observe AllPeers, it must be existing in a meta-state where it is at once both a killer app, and in fact not.

But I'm slightly uncertain about this.

Re:"Killer" apps

[Atuin the Great]

And how long before there are so many "killer" apps available, that Firefox begins to suffer IE bloat?

Indeed, if only there was a way to only load those extensions you're really interested in....

What next?

[Dan East]

And in other news, the Open Office suite has been released as a Firefox Plugin. Analysts predict that not only will this draw users away from from IE, but millions will also switch away from Office.

An interesting quote from the article, "What we're really waiting for is someone to release a linux distribution as a Firefox plugin. This will spell certain death to both IE and Windows simultaneously. The big hurdle is to figure out how to launch Firefox before the OS has even booted."

Dan East

Re:Quantumware

[revery]

We won't know until we open the box! Wow, that was interesting...

Hey, it's Schrodinger's App

Re:Quantumware

[pieterh]

Probably, at least, I assume so.

If we assume, for the case of probability, that AllPeers is amazingly fantastic, which seems probably, or at least possible, since they are based in Prague, which is on the same side of the ex-Iron Curtain as the location where Kazaa and Skype were built, then it's possible, in my opinion, to assume that it'll be amazingly fantastic.

Heck, I want it now, and if that's anything to go by, it'll be an amazing success! Probably... :-)

Re:Paranoid

[Ingolfke]

Thanks for the comment template. I'll use this template anytime any new feature of any product is released. It'll save me so much time having to actually think up a specific meaningful response.

Re:Paranoid

[ehaggis]

This looks like a great comment, but it also looks like it could be a consistant comment waiting to happen. These are the comment templates that have plagued comment template security. Let's hope we don't trade comments for comment templates.

Re:Right idea, wrong platform

[EmagGeek]

100MB of Ram? What version do you have that uses only 100MB of Ram? Where can I download it? :)

Re:Quantumware

[Ctrl-Z]

If you really wanted to waste your money, you would buy catware.com [onlinepolitics.com] for $2788.20 and then randomly redirect to either deadcatware.com or livecatware.com.

Re:Quantumware

[webrunner]

Lets assume for the sake of argument that AllPeers will release with the ability to convert all web pages to a full 3D virtual reality experience beamed right into your brain. Also, while beamed to your brain it will re-wire your body to be immune to all diseases. If this is true it is quite possible that AllPeers could pull billions away from IE and may in fact bring about world peace.

Antisocial Commentary

[ryanvm]

<troll>What is with all this social networking crap? Egads. The only technological phenomenon more annoying than blogorrhea (and Mac fans) is this recent notion that everything I do online should be intimately shareable with everyone I know. Hello? If I wanted social interaction, I'd go hang out with people instead of huddling in a dimly lit corner of my basement staring bleary-eyed at the cold, pale glow of my CRT.

Come on people. Am I the only one who still does shit alone on the Internet?
</troll>

And yes, I too appreciate the irony of spurting antisocial rants on a community web site.

Re:You must be a unix user

[rjstanford]

I don't like suits either but then I am not a typical user.

How so? Do you wear them inside out? Or over fireman's gear? I can see how that could be a problem actually. Maybe we need adaptive suits that expand and contract as needed?

Re:Right idea, wrong platform

[bogie]

Agreed. If he said 150-175MB he MIGHT have been believable. But 100MB? What did do? Just load up a single tab at google.com? Thank god memory is cheap.

Re:Pardon Me....

[Elwood P Dowd]

After reading your comment I was overcome with a desire to stab myself in the neck with a pencil.

Hospital bill goes to you, good buddy.

You have no idea what you are talking about [wikipedia.org]. None.

The Internet is a "big killer app"... Jesus Christ.

Re:Nothing to see here

[cbiltcliffe]

What has changed since the 28th when the story was last published? (Nothing, it seems)

The year?

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Re:Quantumware

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

You deride the power of the probable assumption?

Something about that line makes we want to go watch the Matrix.

You just put your finger on the status

[hey!]

of my current project.

Its a superposition of the finished and unfinished state. No wonder I'm scared to look at it.